Author: David Taylor
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Stars launch Global Poverty Promise
Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Annie Lennox, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal are among the big names launching a new poverty campaign today, the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s Make Poverty History speech in Trafalgar Square. In a campaign video released today – shown for the first time at LCID’s launch on Monday – the celebrities…
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Launch Event NOW MONDAY at 5.15PM for a 5.30PM start
We have had to reschedule our launch the Labour Campaign for International Development with Secretary of State, Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP. Please note the new details: MONDAY 1ST February | 5.15pm (Speeches at 5.30pm) Committee Room 12, House of Commons. Entrance: Main gate, Cromwell Green We are sorry for the inconvenience, but we hope…
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Why have The Times got the knives out for DfID?
This post was first posted on Left Foot Forward. Following on from The Times’s coverage of the International Policy Network’s allegations against DfID’s funding of the TUC – allegations that Left Foot Forward showed to be unfounded – they have once again fuelled the aid sceptics’ fire with several leading articles in their paper today.…
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Guardian Editorial on the Tories plans on DfID and the MOD
Good editorial piece in The Guardian on the questions surrounding the concerns the Tories will divert the aid budget to the MoD… “International development: Coming to the aid of the party The Disasters Emergency Committee launched its appeal for Haiti yesterday. The earthquake death toll may never be known precisely. But the terrible cost of politically motivated…
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Haiti Humanitarian Relief Trebled
International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, has announced that the Labour Government will treble its funding for humanitarian relief in response to the Haiti earthquake. Based on assessments on the scale of the disaster, aid will rise from 10 to 30 million dollars. The additional 20 million dollars will be put to work providing further relief…
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Allegations on TUC’s development role without foundation
Posted on Left Foot Forward on Friday A slew of recent articles seek to undermine the important and justifiable role for the Trades Union Congress in delivering development policy. On Monday, The Times reported that “The Government is giving the Trades Union Congress millions of pounds from its foreign aid budget to pay for the education…
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Article slamming Conservatives’ policies by Director of the UN’s Human Development Report Office
Fantastic article in today’s Guardian slamming the Conservatives’ policies on development by Kevin Watkins, Director of the UN’s Human Development Report Office, and former Head of Policy at Oxfam. Cameron’s slum dogma The Conservative plan for overseas aid treats Africa as a laboratory for free-market ideology You don’t win general elections in Britain by fighting…
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Left Foot Forward: Analysing the Tories’ false claims on development
This is first of many articles we hope to be writing for Left Foot Forward. On January 1st, Andrew Mitchell was interviewed in The Guardian outlining the Conservatives’ priorities on international development. Here Left Foot Forward analyses some of the Tory claims. Claim #1: DFID is too scattergun in its approach In the Conservatives’ Green…
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Oxfam interviewed by Progress on food & agriculture
Interview by Progress of Oxfam’s Director of Campaigns & Policy, worth a look. “Oxfam’s campaigns and policy director Phil Bloomer responds to Hilary Benn’s announcement on the future of food in Britain. He says greater production and sustainability are possible – if the government can manage to redirect subsidies away from vested interests and towards…
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